Mary Clifford
Compassionate, practical support for parenting and family
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mary
Mary Clifford is a licensed professional counselor in Arizona who focuses on family and parenting concerns among many other areas. She offers straightforward support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, bipolar disorder, addictions, relationship strains, grief, sleep problems, and self-esteem challenges.
Her approach treats each person as the expert on their life while offering tools and steady support to make changes. Mary values a practical, down-to-earth style in sessions.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps identify small steps that feel doable. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to change unhelpful thinking and to reduce emotional overwhelm. Motivational interviewing is used when people want to move through ambivalence and commit to change.
She brings eight years of professional experience to her work. Her license is LPC, Arizona LPC LPC-20789. Sessions may include talking through recent problems, practicing new skills, and setting short-term goals to measure progress.
Mary also attends to issues such as first responder stress, gender dysphoria, hospice and end-of-life concerns, intellectual disability, and obsessive-compulsive tendencies when relevant. She aims to make therapy feel collaborative so clients leave with clearer next steps. Therapy is offered in English and delivered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Online approaches that fit real family life
Mary uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into manageable parts and is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and many everyday stressors.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach present-moment skills that reduce overwhelm. Mindfulness practices help with emotional regulation and can make parenting and family interactions feel less reactive.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Mary discusses goals and preferences and then chooses or blends methods to match each person's needs. She checks in over time and adjusts the plan based on what is working.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. These options make it easier to attend from home, a workplace break, or while traveling. The variety of formats allows for short check-ins or longer therapy sessions depending on what the person needs.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Mary
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- Stop at any point